Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) 2023 Campus Lecture: Circular Economy is officially launched!

The first lecture of this year was held at the Chinese Culture University on March 3rd, 2023 (Friday). Designer Po-Wen Lee from FONG YI CONSTRUCTION gave a wonderful speech – “Exploring Architecture Design In Popular Culture”. It was a great honor to be there at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, together with the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC) project manager. There were about 20 teachers and students participating in the event.

Designer Po-Wen Lee analyzed contemporary humanistic issues, creative trends, and even future architectural design and imagined urban planning from the perspectives and scenes of movies and video games. From these works, we can see human beings’ thoughts and expectations for future interior design, road planning, urban design, urban planning, greening, sustainable thinking or architecture, etc. Designer Lee also said that video games are a modern way to observe the architectural design, environmental atmosphere, and divisional structure of the future world from a first-person perspective, and deeply experience the conceptual imagination of these video game creators for the future.

In addition, Designer Lee also shared the differences in teaching between Taiwan and other countries, the trend of future architectural education, and the SDGs and ESG issues that are currently popular. He shared various construction projects in Taichung City that himself participated while working in FONG YI CONSTRUCTION, such as livable building facilities, vertical greening, multi-storey terraces, and centering on the livable building regulations of Taichung City, introducing the popularization and promotion of green buildings.

Campus Lecture: Circular Economy came to a successful conclusion. Special thanks to the TPCA foundation for its support. It really added excitement to 2023TISDC, and we believe it will provide teachers and students with more thoughts and observations from different sharing.

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On March 3rd 2023, Taiwan International Student Design Competition is honored to cooperate with the Denmark designer, Christian Baun, to hold an online promotion for students from Zealand Erhvervsakademi. Mr. Christian Baun introduced TISDC with detailed information including the theme of 2023 and participation rules. There were around 15 students and teachers online and onsite. TISDC has become an internationally famous student design competition in recent years. Not only did TISDC receive many entries from different design departments and schools, but also attracted many students by its features – no entry fee, International Design Organization Award and so on, hoping to compete with students from around the world through entering the competition.

Thanks to Mr. Baun again for his big help, and also being the bridge for TISDC and Denmark, hoping to let TISDC be seen by more and more people. We hope to have more future collaborations and to share Taiwan Design Power with Denmark.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Zealand Erhvervsakademi

On March 3rd, 2023, Mr. Hiroyuki Yamada, the Head of the Student Services Promotion of Osaka Sogo College of Design, Mr. Makoto Muramatsu from LAP(Liberal Arts Promotion) and Mr. Ryuuki Hira Yanagi visited the TISDC (Taiwan International Student Design Competition).

Associate Professor Hsiao-Wei Fang, the Associate Project Director of TISDC introduced the theme “Compassion” is in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. We hope to encourage students of all nations to observe and care about the issues around them and in the world. With a design mindset of empathy and solicitude, they can make the world a better place.

The exchange process was very successful. We believe that more students from Osaka Sogo College of Design will participate in this year’s competition and join the TISDC art school platform to have a long-term cooperation relationship through this interaction.

Caption: Visit to Osaka Sogo College of Design

Caption: Associate Professor Hsiao-Wei Fang introduce TISDC

Caption: The Head of the Student Services Promotion of Osaka Sogo College of Design, Mr. Hiroyuki Yamada, and Associate Project Director Associate Professor Hsiao-Wei Fang

The promotional activities of the 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition have been launched in all design-related colleges and universities across Taiwan!

On March 8th (Wed.), the project manager of TISDC was honored to go to Vanung University to promote this year’s competition. We gave our great appreciation to Professor Jian-Guang Lu for the perfect arrangement of this event. There’re about 120 students joined the session together.

Targeting on the theme of 2023TISDC, “Compassion,” this activity not only introduced the competition to the attendees and shared some of the winning works of last year’s competition, we also hope to encourage students of all nations to observe and care about the issues around them and in the world. With a design mindset of empathy and solicitude, they can make the world a better place.

TISDC expect to raise the student’s willingness to join 2023 competition and seize the opportunity to strive for high prizes.

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Organized by Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and executed by Asia University, 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) invited professors and teachers in Taiwan to join 2023 TISDC’s advisory council meeting on 17th March (Fri.). “Compassion”, the theme of 2023 TISDC, is pursuing the value of UN’s “SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals” by design. There are three categories for this year: Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation. TISDC aims to encourage students who are interested in design from both Taiwan and abroad to join the competition actively.

Once again, the executive team of TISDC would like to express their appreciation to those who participated in the advisory council meeting with their precious suggestions. Through this promotional campaign, 2023TISDC hopes to attract more teachers and students to participate in the competition and reach the next milestone together. Prof. Apex Lin, the project director of TISDC, indicated that with students’ active participation in TISDC, design field in Taiwan could keep moving forward. 2022 TISDC attracted 16,749 entries from 66 countries/regions around the world, which indicated that Taiwan International Student Design Competition has become one of the most remarkable worldwide student design competitions. TISDC thanks to iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation and TPCA Environment Foundation (TPCF) for continuing their sponsorship this year. The Brand Specified Special Prize, sponsored by TPCA Environment Foundation (TPCF) will give out two additional special prizes selecting to each category. TPCF is responsible for providing their spirits to participants to put into their design works and come out with products with higher and additional value. This way, it would give young designers a stage to show their creativity to the world.

Special thanks to all the professors and teachers for attending TISDC’s advisory council meeting. The attended representatives are as follows: Siao-Zong Chen, Head of Fu Hsin Trade & Art School, Chi-Hsiung Chen, Deputy head of College of Creative Design of Asia University, Chih-Fu, Wu, Deputy head of College of Design of Tatung University, Jia-Meng Siao, Deputy head of College of Design of National Taichung University of Science Technology, Shou-Che Wu, Director of Office of Arts and Culture of Cheng Shiu University, Chi-Tung Hung, Dean of College of Design of Ming Chuan University, Hsin-Hung Lin, Director of Department of Creative Product Design of Asia University, Rui-Lin Lin, Director of Department of Visual Communication Design of Chienkuo Technology University, Chao-Fu Yang, Director of Department of Visual Communication Design of Shu-Te University, Kuen-Feng Chen, Director of Department of Visual Communication Design of Chaoyang University of Technology,

Zun-Hwa Chiang, Director of Department of Industrial Design of Ming Chi University of Technology, Amanda Hu, Chair of Department of Communication Design of Hsing Wu University, Yu-Chien Chen, Director of Department of Advertisement Design of Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce, Shu-Fen Gao, Director of Department of Advertisement Design of Taipei Municipal Songshan High School of Commerce and Home Economics, Jian-Meng Lyu, Director of Department of Advertisement Design of Ta-Ming Senior High School, Chun-Di Chen, Professor of Department of Arts and Design of National Taipei University of Education, Wei-Yu Lin, Deputy Professor of Department of Visual Dsign of National Kaohsiung Normal University, Sheng-Chuan Chang, Teacher of Department of Visual Communication Design of China University of Technology, Jin-Shi Chen, Teacher of Department of  Digital Media Design of Tungnan University, Yi-Rong Wu, Executive Secretary of Design Center of National Changhua Senior School of Commerce. We hope that more professors, teachers and students know TISDC, participate in the competition and create a milestone in this year.

Caption: 2023TISDC Advisory Council Meeting

2023TISDC Campus Promotion Campaign for the “Taiwan International Student Design Competition ” (TISDC) is still ongoing!

To promote this year’s competition, the project manager of TISDC and the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC) went to the Leeming Institute of Technology, Digital Multimedia Department for campus promotion on March 20th, with approximately 60 teachers and students participating.

The theme of this year’s competition, “Compassion” echoes the United Nations’ sustainable development goals proposed in 2015 to be achieved by 2030. Not only does it encourage students to solve global sustainable development problems through design, but it also allows students to learn and improve their skills by competing with students from around the world. We hope that students can break through their usual thinking patterns and create excellent design works.

Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the support and assistance of Professors from the Leeming Institute of Technology of the Digital Multimedia Department, which made the promotion event go smoothly and successfully!

Promoting 2023TISDC at Leeming Institute of Technology

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), a remarkable international design competition, is in its sixteenth year. On 13^th April, 2023, the executive team of Taiwan International Student Design Competition was led by the associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin, to promote this year’s competition at Temasek Polytechnic.

Targeting at the theme of this year’s competition, “Compassion,”lecturer Lin shared some of the winning works that TISDC received before with the attendees, hoping to encourage cultural exchanges.

Special thanks to all the professors from Temasek Polytechnic for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join. We look forward to their students’ active participation in TISDC with their excellent works.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at Temasek Polytechnic

On 12^th April, the executive team of 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2023TISDC) went to the National Nantou Senior High School to promote this year’s competition. There were about 100 people on the scene.

The theme of 2023TISDC is “Compassion”, which is related to the Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in 2015. TISDC hopes that the young designers can develop their design concepts through this competition and improve daily lives as well as to make the world a better place.

Finally, we would like to thank again to director Jia-Jun Gao and students of National Nantou Senior High School for their participation. Looking forward in receiving many entries from students and hope they get good results and win awards in 2023TISDC.

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The Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) received tremendous support from the Department of Higher Education of Ministry of Education who served as the organizer, and the iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation who were the sponsors. The Cultural Affairs Bureau of Chiayi City Government, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Kinmen County, and Foundation for European Cultural Exchange were the collaborative partners. With the help of all, on April 21st, the TISDC’s call for entries was featured in renowned media outlets in the US, including the Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, and other online platforms.

Established in 2008, the TISDC has currently entered its 16th year, it continues to be acknowledged by the global design industry as a student exclusive competition that is not only world-renowned but also highly credible. The theme of this year, Compassion, is tightly connected to the SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN. It is hoped that students worldwide can observe and tap into people and things in need in daily lives as well as apply design thinking that embodies empathy and compassion to make this world a better place. Online registration will soon be available on May 15^th, 2023 (Monday) with the total prize money of US$120,000. The deadline for submission is July 15th, 2023 (Saturday) at 23:59 Taipei time (GMT +8:00).

Please visit AP News coverage for more details: https://reurl.cc/5Mx5Mz

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) will be launched this year, and the campus promotion was held at Chaoyang University of Technology on April 24th. We were grateful for the invitation from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Chaoyang University of Technology, which had provided the opportunity for the TISDC team to promote the competition on campus.

This year’s theme is “Compassion.” This theme corresponds to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 proposed in 2015. Through this promotion, we introduced award-winning works from previous years, fully explained this year’s competition theme and registration process, and shared the emotional journey of award-winning students. Coincidentally, one of this school’s students was the winner last year, which makes these students even more enthusiastic about participating. We hope this time they can also create unique design works.

We would like to express our gratitude to the teachers and students of the Department of Visual Communication Design at Chaoyang University of Technology for their support and assistance, which has made the TISDC campus promotion event a success.

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This year’s TISDC campus lectures on circular economy have started, and I am very happy to have been invited to give a circular economy lecture at Tatung University today. I am also honored to have invited designer Zhang Zishan from Oh! Design Studio as the speaker for this lecture.

Designer Zhang Zishan began her lecture with the topic of “Circular Design as You Know It,” introducing students to what circular design is and how improving the product’s regenerative and restorative capacity is a strategy to achieve the goal of “zero waste” and fulfill social responsibility. The designer also shared circular design products published by Taiwanese brands for sustainable development goals, as well as design cases in which Oh! Design Studio participated. She reminded students to start with a sustainable mindset, aim to improve existing designs in life with the purpose of optimization, and although they may face many challenges, she still hopes that students will continue to create designs with the goal of sustainable development and fulfill their responsibilities as global citizens.

During the Q&A session, students were very enthusiastic in asking questions, whether it was about the bottlenecks in the topic they were preparing to discuss or the design examples that Oh! Design Studio had implemented. I believe that both designer Zhang Zishan and TISDC program director Chen Yanting gave students different insights and suggestions, and look forward to seeing more excellent design works from Tatung University students at TISDC this year.

Finally, I would like to thank the students who participated in this campus lecture and the support and assistance from Director Lin Jiahua, Professor Li Wenyuan, and Professor Xue Jiahe!

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2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) Campus Promotion is coming to Chung Yuan Christian University on April 21st!

The competition for this year is about to begin, and the publicity team is grateful to the Department of Commercial Design at Chung Yuan Christian University for giving us the opportunity to introduce the competition. This year’s theme is “Compassion”, echoes the United Nations’ sustainable development goals proposed in 2015 to be achieved by 2030. Through this theme, students can understand global issues, design unique and creative works, and participate in global exchange and learning, together creating amazing works!

We sincerely thank the professors from the Department of Commercial Design at Chung Yuan Christian University for their enthusiastic participation in this promotion, making the promotion activity a good success!

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